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NEW REPORT: Merchants Up Their Digital Checkout Game In The Age Of Amazon

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Retailers that sell products and services online have been slowly, but steadily, removing payment frictions from their online checkout processes for the past year, smoothing those processes and improving user experience to boost conversion rates. Some of these features have become so common that they are often taken for granted.

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Nordstrom Brings On Former Amazon Exec

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Chain Store Age reports that the luxury retail chain has named as its CTO, Kumar Srinivasan, previously of Amazon — where he served as vice president of Amazon Web Services from 2005–2008, then as general manager of Amazon Payments from 2008–2010.

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IBM Open Pages recognized as the pioneer in redefining GRC

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Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. When IBM acquired OpenPages in 2010, it was widely recognized as a pioneer and market leader in governance, risk and compliance software.

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IBM again a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management

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Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. When IBM acquired OpenPages in 2010, it was widely recognized as a pioneer and market leader in governance, risk and compliance software.

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How The Z-Wave Alliance Is Balancing IoT Interoperability And Security

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Smart homes were a distant dream when the consortium launched in 2005 — only six products used the protocol at the time. The Z-Wave Alliance maintains three primary mandates for its member companies to help them improve usersexperiences and bolster devices’ security. And the more devices you add, the slower it gets.” .

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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Since 2005, sources claim there have been 4,500 data breaches , 3,455 of which have happened since 2013, the year of the Target breach. Cashless is now becoming king in stores, as merchants push digital over paper (and coin) in the name of efficiency and a better user experience. But even that has changed.

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FinovateFall 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

VERY Cool mobile, user experience. they also have an “early warning” function that might alert a user that a sector might have some change in news and you may need to make investment changes to address. “Our model goes back to 2005” William. I believe it, but it’s still bad news. Cool name and branding.

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